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Everything is ecology

by Mark Maraun

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Massacre in Malaya: Exposing Britain's My Lai

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Book cover for A Company of Planters: Confessions of a colonial rubber planter in 1950s Malaya

A Company of Planters: Confessions of a colonial rubber planter in 1950s Malaya by John Dodd

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All said and done, the mosquito is the biggest nuisance and danger but there is not the same threat of malaria as there used to be. Plenty of fevers though, called FUO: fever of unknown origin. Our visiting medical officer is forever ...more

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Sivasothi’s Quotes

“Possibly here in the Holocene, or just before ten or twenty thousand years ago, life hit a peek of diversity. Then we appeared. We are the great meteorite.”
― Lynn Margulis, Mind, Life and Universe: Conversations with Great Scientists of Our Time

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“What kind of grad student do you take? “I never take a straight A student. A real scientist tends to be critical, and somewhere along the line, they had to rebel against their teachers.”
― Lynn Margulis

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